BAUXITE MINING PROJECT

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Caption : The Galikonda hill, where bauxite mining will be taken up by the AP Mining Development Corporation with technical support from Jindal Group to supply raw material for an alumina plant coming up near Visakhapatnam. The project will displace 4,182 tribal families belonging to 147 hamlets in Visakhapatnam district. According to CPI (M) Politburo Member, B.V. Raghavulu, the project will cause an ecological disaster by changing the course of hill streams in Eastern Ghats. Photo: K.R. Deepak May 19, 2006